This thesis aims to highlight the complexity of honor-related violence and femicide in Swedish society and how it is represented in media based on who the victim and perpetrator is depending on ethnic and religious backgrounds. The thesis will be based on a comparative discourse analysis of forty Swedish media articles concerning honor killings (hedersmord) and femicide (kvinnomord) in Swedish translated to English. The analysis focuses on what is associated with each of these words concerning the victim and perpetrator and if it is interpreted as an honor killing or a femicide depending on assumptions of ethnic or religious background in majority and minority contexts. The result of the thesis presents the dichotomy of honor killings as something belonging to practices of the “other” or “non-Swedish” while femicide, being presented as something domestic within Swedish culture it is not presented as something structural or collective as honor killings are.

The purpose of this study has been to understand and theorize the phenomenon of honor andhonor-systems. Honor-systems has been a widely discussed theme by different outsources.Throughout the last 20 years there has been many cases of murders rooted in the preservationof one’s honor and reputation. To understand the different factors behind honor-system,relevant theories have been carefully selected to fit the theme and direction of this study. Thechoice of method for this paper has been a qualitative literature study where the author hasexamined previous papers, reports, and other relevant studies to get an understanding of thesubject. Then the result was analyzed by two theories, a cultural theory, and a theory ofintersectionality. While researching the subject of honor-system, it has become clear that thefield of honor-systems is a researched field, there are multiple reports on the matter. Insummary the result showed that in honor-systems the biggest victim is often, women as theyare both the victim of violence and control and as the same time perpetrators. In differentcultures there are different expectations on females and males, and in in honor-systems thesystem is run as a patriarchal one. There were some key differences between the two theorieswhen trying to understand honor-systems and especially when trying to understand a culturesimpact on the individual. It has become clear that the systems of honor affect many people insociety.

Master of Science / Counseling and Student Development / Christy D. Craft / An honor system is a governing body within an education system that “includes one or more of the following elements: a written pledge in which students affirm that their work will be or has been done honestly; the majority of the judiciary that hears alleged violations of academic dishonesty is compromised of students, or the chair of this group is a student; unproctored examinations; and a clause that places some degree of obligation on students to report incidents of cheating they learn about or observe” (McCabe, Trevino, & Butterfield, 2001). Institutions from high schools to major universities are establishing such systems as a way to preserve the integrity of their diplomas and degrees. Research has shown that “up to 70% of college students cheat at some point prior to graduation” (Whitley, 1998). What is more alarming is the number of these students are using technology in an attempt to get ahead. In this report, I intend to show how technology affects different aspects of honor systems. First I will briefly discuss the history of honor systems and how the changes in technology have affected them. I will define common terms and ideas associated with today’s honor systems, and then discuss how sanctioning has evolved. Next, I will explore the role changing technology plays in honor pledge/code violations. Specifically, I will address how honor systems are addressing the growing problem of technology being used in cases of academic dishonesty, unfortunate uses of new technology in the classroom, and how on-line learning is impacting the work of honor systems. Lastly, through conversations with people working in honor system offices nationwide, I will highlight the roles and impact that technology is playing on their campuses.

Recent interest and scholarship in the role of emotions in politics provide an opportunity for revisiting the idea of ancient Greek thumos as understood by Aristotle. In Aristotle’s Politics, thumos is a capacity of the soul for affection; it is most clearly seen in anger and righteous indignation; and it is indispensable for understanding the nature of politics. Aristotle shows that thumos motivates political actions that can be beneficial as well as destructive to the city. This ambivalence has an enormous impact on what is possible or desirable in political life and raises important questions about the extent to which thumos should be cultivated in society and in individuals. / text

An evil spiritual being, often called the devil, is an antagonist in several religious traditions. The religious ideology among enslaved Africans in America allowed for the devil to play an important, and sometimes ambiguous, role in their lives. Through the examination of conversion narratives, this research intends to argue that their conversion experiences are heavily impacted by and mirrored the reality of slavery. Therefore, the enslaved people’s accounts of the devil are influenced by the power and honor attributed to the institution of slavery. The data from gathered from the narratives will be interpreted through a poststructuralist lens of power and honor. Poststructuralist theories of power and honor will reveal the significance of the devil in conversion narratives and unearth an African American understanding of the devil that is created and sustained by the systems of power and honor in American slavery.

Moral philosophers like Martha Nussbaum, Philippa Foot, and Michael Weber argue for what I call the “Neo-Stoic Reading” of Nietzsche, which includes two claims: first, Nietzsche allegedly recommends the relentless pursuit of self-interest at the expense of other persons; second, he denies empathy any major role in the ethical life. I will argue that the Neo-Stoic view misses an important unifying theme in Nietzsche’s ethics and his criticism of morality—his investment in the value of honor—and that Nietzsche’s ethical recommendations involving empathy and even altruism can be better understood by situating them within an historical tradition of honor-based ethics.

El tratamiento de una institución jurídica obedece, por lo general, al interés particular de alguien que apreciando su situación e impacto emprende la tarea de evaluar su utilidad en el contexto social en el que se aplica; verificando si el enunciado normativo que comprende el supuesto de hecho y la consecuencia jurídica -configurados en su estructura-, vienen siendo interpretados y aplicados bajo el “objeto” diseñado por el legislador. Esa vocación no podía ser ajena a nuestra inquietud, en tanto que como Magistrado del Poder Judicial -antes de la Corte Superior de Justicia de Cusco, y ahora de Lima Norte-, entre los años 2009 a 2010, he advertido que muchas personas, habiendo tenido la calidad de inculpados en diferentes procesos penales, luego de ser absueltos de la imputación penal, o sus causas sobreseídas, acudieron a la jurisdicción civil con demandas de indemnización de daños y perjuicios por denuncia calumniosa contra los agraviados de los procesos penales, las que empero han sido declaradas improcedentes o infundadas.

El presente trabajo se basa en la metodología cualitativa, el mismo que obedece al análisis de los divergentes pronunciamientos jurisprudenciales de nuestros tribunales, en la evaluación y calificación de la gravedad de la falta de injuria y faltamiento de palabra para habilitar el despido del trabajador, teniendo como propósito unificar las peculiaridades que configuran a la injuria y faltamiento de palabra, como falta “grave” que justifique el despido del trabajador. Asimismo este análisis responde debido a que el despido por falta grave de injuria o faltamiento de palabra consagrado en el articulo 25 inciso f) de productividad y competitividad laboral, sólo refiere sí el trabajador incurre en injuria o faltamiento de palabra, el empleador en ejercicio de su potestad sancionadora lo despedirá, al volverse insostenible el vínculo laboral; ante ello, el mencionado artículo no establece la “gravedad” de la falta para facultar el despido, quedando una libre valoración de esta que podría transgredir los derechos fundamentales del trabajador. / Tesis

La “inmunidad parlamentaria” es una garantía de las asambleas legislativas para proteger su autonomía frente a los demás poderes del Estado. Así tal cual, ha sido un dogma a lo largo de nuestra historia republicana (y también de toda la historia del constitucionalismo comparado). Su data es casi en paralelo con la aparición del Estado liberal francés durante el siglo XVIII, y desde entonces ha sido incorporado con diversos matices en los nuevos estados democráticos. Precisamente su longevidad y el advenimiento de la crisis de representación de las asambleas legislativas bien iniciado el siglo XX, han obligado a los Estados ha tener que replantear el objeto de la inmunidad parlamentaria, mucho más con la consolidación de la “era de los derechos”; ambos fenómenos surgidos durante el período de entreguerras. Se entiende desde entonces que la legitimidad democrática se evidencia en la disposición de promover y proteger los derechos ciudadanos. Y por otro lado, en la exigencia que los gobernantes respondan por sus actos, sin que medien privilegios que les confieran impunidad. Este nuevo panorama ha llegado al extremo de replantear la configuración de la teoría de la soberanía popular, generándose un amplio debate sobre la representación, poniendo en tela de juicio una serie de instituciones propias del Poder Legislativo, entre ellas, de la propia inmunidad parlamentaria. / Tesis

Att utöva våld i hederns namn har historiskt sätt existerat länge och kvinnor som gjorde sig skyldiga till utomäktenskapliga eller föräktenskapliga relationer fick allvarliga påföljder. Syftet med studien var att se hur olika yrkesverksamheter så som kvinnojouren, polisen, kuratorer och barnmorskor arbetar och samarbetar i hedersrelaterade ärenden och undersökt vilka komplikationer kan förekomma. Fjorton deltagare intervjuades. Hedersrelaterat våld präglas av patriarkala kulturer som innefattar hierarkisystem där underordnade individer tar skuld för skam. Resultatet visar att isoleringen från samhället och det sociala livet börjar stegvis och i tidig ålder. Det börjar att flickorna måste minska sociala umgängeskretsen därefter minskar de på träningstimmarna och desto äldre flickan blir desto mer ökar familjens kontrollbehov. Det är viktigt för yrkespersonerna att i detta sammanhang fånga upp signaler och upptäcka ”lindrigare våld” som kan tyda på hedersrelaterad problematik. Hedersrelaterat våld är ett komplext i den meningen att varje fall är unikt och problematikens grad varierar från fall till fall detta gäller även graden av våld och förtryck.